I have been wanting to go fly fishing for Mullet for a while, and yesterday was my first opportunity, the tide was low at lunch time and there was no wind or RAIN!

I made up a huge bucket of ground bait, by mixing bread and minced mackerel. I used this mixture as the tide went out to create a scent trail for the Mullet to follow and to encourage the Mullet to start feeding on bread and mackerel particles.

This approach worked well, but the size of the Mullet was small. I had a large shoal forming and feeding well on the ground bait. As the tide turned and the flood started I noticed the average size of the Mullet was much larger. I wanted to catch the Mullet on a surface fly (I need to see the take in order to hook them) so I introduced floating bread crusts into the slick of ground bait. This worked and the Mullet started sipping the floating crusts.

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For all those interested in this apparant sighting, here is a link to the video of the GreatWhite shark at St Ives - thanks to the Sun newspaper.

WHats your opinion of this?